Permission or no permission for Snowden's asylum doesn't change anything, the Putin's regime has already showed its anti-Russian and pro-jewish nature many times since 1999. Though as I guess, if Putin finally grants citizenship for Snowden, many local users would twice their efforts for glorifying the anti-Russian dictator.

I do not support Navalniy, but people, certainly claiming his pro-jewish views only because of his education in Yale, surprisingly do not notice the jewish support for Putin (and vise versa).

I have a lot of communication with Jews in Russia, the majority of Jews hate secretly the Russian people and Putin.

Jews have the greatest hatred to Russians.
Stalin liquidated the absolute power of Jews in Russia in 1937.
Putin liquidated repeatedly absolute power of Jews in Russia in 2003.

It remains to be seen which will have a greater impact on future would-be whistleblowers, the U.S. government's hysteria or Edwin Snowden's patriotic act.

Every morning that Snowden wakes up as a free man, even in Russia, provides moral encouragement for many other potential whistleblowers. Snowden's courage has the potential to go down in history as a heroic act, equal to the first man to step over that famous line drawn in the sand at the Alamo.

It remains to be seen which will have a greater impact on future would-be whistleblowers, the U.S. government's hysteria or Edwin Snowden's patriotic act.

Now that the personal drama is (more or less) over, I hope that at least the alternative media (we know the MSM won't do this) will turn its attention to Snowden's revelations and their implications.

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FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects

Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation 'Go Dark,' Evading Wiretaps

A view of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC.

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal wiretap into the cyber age.

Federal agencies have largely kept quiet about these capabilities, but court documents and interviews with people involved in the programs provide new details about the hacking tools, including spyware delivered to computers and phones through email or Web links—techniques more commonly associated with attacks by criminals.

People familiar with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's programs say that the use of hacking tools under court orders has grown as agents seek to keep up with suspects who use new communications technology, including some types of online chat and encryption tools. The use of such communications, which can't be wiretapped like a phone, is called "going dark" among law enforcement.

A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment.

The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and purchases others from the private sector. With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google Inc.'s GOOG +0.26%Android software to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can do the same to microphones in laptops without the user knowing, the person said. Google declined to comment.

The bureau typically uses hacking in cases involving organized crime, child pornography or counterterrorism, a former U.S. official said. It is loath to use these tools when investigating hackers, out of fear the suspect will discover and publicize the technique, the person said.

The FBI has been developing hacking tools for more than a decade, but rarely discloses its techniques publicly in legal cases.

Earlier this year, a federal warrant application in a Texas identity-theft case sought to use software to extract files and covertly take photos using a computer's camera, according to court documents. The judge denied the application, saying, among other things, that he wanted more information on how data collected from the computer would be minimized to remove information on innocent people.

Since at least 2005, the FBI has been using "web bugs" that can gather a computer's Internet address, lists of programs running and other data, according to documents disclosed in 2011. The FBI used that type of tool in 2007 to trace a person who was eventually convicted of emailing bomb threats in Washington state, for example.

The FBI "hires people who have hacking skill, and they purchase tools that are capable of doing these things," said a former official in the agency's cyber division. The tools are used when other surveillance methods won't work: "When you do, it's because you don't have any other choice," the official said.

Surveillance technologies are coming under increased scrutiny after disclosures about data collection by the National Security Agency. The NSA gathers bulk data on millions of Americans, but former U.S. officials say law-enforcement hacking is targeted at very specific cases and used sparingly.

Still, civil-liberties advocates say there should be clear legal guidelines to ensure hacking tools aren't misused. "People should understand that local cops are going to be hacking into surveillance targets," said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union. "We should have a debate about that."

Mr. Soghoian, who is presenting on the topic Friday at the DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas, said information about the practice is slipping out as a small industry has emerged to sell hacking tools to law enforcement. He has found posts and resumes on social networks in which people discuss their work at private companies helping the FBI with surveillance.

A search warrant would be required to get content such as files from a suspect's computer, said Mark Eckenwiler, a senior counsel at Perkins Coie LLP who until December was the Justice Department's primary authority on federal criminal surveillance law. Continuing surveillance would necessitate an even stricter standard, the kind used to grant wiretaps.

But if the software gathers only communications-routing "metadata"—like Internet protocol addresses or the "to" and "from" lines in emails—a court order under a lower standard might suffice if the program is delivered remotely, such as through an Internet link, he said. That is because nobody is physically touching the suspect's property, he added.

An official at the Justice Department said it determines what legal authority to seek for such surveillance "on a case-by-case basis." But the official added that the department's approach is exemplified by the 2007 Washington bomb-threat case, in which the government sought a warrant even though no agents touched the computer and the spyware gathered only metadata.

In 2001, the FBI faced criticism from civil-liberties advocates for declining to disclose how it installed a program to record the keystrokes on the computer of mobster Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. to capture a password he was using to encrypt a document. He was eventually convicted.

A group at the FBI called the Remote Operations Unit takes a leading role in the bureau's hacking efforts, according to former officials.

Officers often install surveillance tools on computers remotely, using a document or link that loads software when the person clicks or views it. In some cases, the government has secretly gained physical access to suspects' machines and installed malicious software using a thumb drive, a former U.S. official said.

The bureau has controls to ensure only "relevant data" are scooped up, the person said. A screening team goes through all of the data pulled from the hack to determine what is relevant, then hands off that material to the case team and stops working on the case.

The FBI employs a number of hackers who write custom surveillance software, and also buys software from the private sector, former U.S. officials said.

Italian company HackingTeam SRL opened a sales office in Annapolis, Md., more than a year ago to target North and South America. HackingTeam provides software that can extract information from phones and computers and send it back to a monitoring system. The company declined to disclose its clients or say whether any are in the U.S.

U.K.-based Gamma International offers computer exploits, which take advantage of holes in software to deliver spying tools, according to people familiar with the company. Gamma has marketed "0 day exploits"—meaning that the software maker doesn't yet know about the security hole—for software including Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, those people said. Gamma, which has marketed its products in the U.S., didn't respond to requests for comment, nor did Microsoft.

Great news. Maybe Mr Snowden can help monitor some of those subversive, George Soros supported NGO's that have been attacking Putin, relentlessly. Such an act would help repay Vladimir Putin's generous and courageous act of providing him safe haven.

Hopefully, Mr Edward Snowden is laying the groundwork for an ex-pat community, in Russia, where American Dissidents can find sanctuary. Perhaps, he can even have the historic honor of providing the first child born into such a sanctuary, if his girlfrind is allowed into Russia.

Putin must be seriously relieved that he does not have to go through the usual smile&handshake routine… However, Putin was right: This tension was engineered by the U.S. side when Snowden was forced to stay inside the Moscow airport and that was not his choice either. The kikes probably were able to make Obama believe that Russia will back off and hand over Snowden.
Obama Cancels Meeting With Putin Amid Tension Over Snowdenhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...984020314.html

Snowden Papa is an easier target. Do not be surprised if he has a sudden stroke or heart attack, just to provide the tens of thousands working on the inside for ZOG to think about something….
Snowden growing accustomed to Russian life, waiting for father’s August arrivalhttp://rt.com/news/snowden-father-in...kucherena-126/

Are you a Russian? And a white nationalist / Russian nationalist at once?

If so, how can you tell me this bs seriously being sober?

Historically there is degree of truth to his statement there. At one point and another both Stalin and Putin made limited moves against Jewish interests. When Stalin opened the autonomous federation for Jews on the Chinese border and started to push his bodyweight around with the doctors’ trials that was pretty self-explanatory. Like if we sent our Jews to live on the Mexican border from NY today… It is also true that he allowed Beriya and his gang to survive and if Solzhenitsyn is right Beriya killed him in return. Brilliant move on his part and luckily he was executed shortly thereafter.

Putin also made a limited move against the Jew super-billionaires of Russia. It is not an accident that the bastards keep arguing against him from $150 million penthouse apartments from central London and Israel.

Every morning that Snowden wakes up as a free man, even in Russia, provides moral encouragement for many other potential whistleblowers. Snowden's courage has the potential to go down in history as a heroic act, equal to the first man to step over that famous line drawn in the sand at the Alamo.

He certainly did the right thing. I wish there were more people like him.

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